Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 01:19 pm
Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 – Entertainment Game Review
Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 is a Entertainment/Strategy/Action game from Flaregames GmbH, first launched in 23rd May 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 56,412+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 Stand Out
Survive a zombie apocalypse and protect the human race from the gunner seat of an AC-130 gunship! Engage in tactical operations and lead groups of military survivors on scavenging missions. Loot precious resources, bring them back to base and build your defenses to repel zombie assaults.
Blow up the undead in this new instalment in the #1 top-grossing Zombie Gunship franchise.
● Experience high-definition visuals and intense scenarios
● Collect realistic weaponry and increase your zombie shooting efficiency
● Provide air support and lead groups of military survivors
● Build up your remote airfield as a base for operations
● Defend your base against zombie assaults
● Survive in a hostile environment and unleash hellfire from your gunner seat!
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Parental Guide:
Zombie Gunship Survival is free to download and play, however some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don’t want to use these features, please disable in-app purchases in your device settings. According to our Terms of Service, Zombie Gunship Survival is allowed for download and play only for persons 13 years or more of age, or with explicit parental consent. You can read more here:
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
A special game update to keep you warm this winter, with fresh new toys:
- First troop prototype weapon & first hero soldier
- New campaign with four special missions, each with an unique mechanic
- New competitive season, Operation: Heaven's Talon
- Brand new Sanctuary event: Night Rush
- Troop-focused objectives event
- Revamped campaign mission crates
- Celebratory Winter Event with limited-time objectives & rewards
Download & Availability
Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is amazing and no we are not a bot this is amazing the gameplay is amazing and the graphics and realisiert are so good.
Im such a plane geek and we love to see all these weapons that we know about. Its just so amazing and we love seeing the AC130H in combat.
Let us delete or remove crates from our Armory. We have a bunch of worthless unwanted common crates that fill our Armory, and so we lose better crates when we play the game which makes us not want to play the game. This is inexcusable nonsense.
We are enjoying this games simple yet in-depth gameplay. Very few or no ads and a great gameplay loop. From everything Ive seen so far we would say this is a top 5 phone game.
This game is only for giga chads who mew and have a W cantell tilt.
This game started off very good. Getting new weapons and upgrading them do a lot good every level complete the zombies, get stronger and stronger and new zombies. We enter the battle You can upgrade your soldiers guns and get new soldiers, the best zombie game we ever played.
This game is fun and all but in our opinion we think the original game is still fun. So we ask from yall can u still let us play the original or let click ok and still let us play or sumthin.
Ive encountered a glitch where randomly our squad with suddenly evacuate eve thought they didnt loot the past building please fix this glitch. We feel like gold is hard to come by; Pls increase its spawn and drop chances it also feels hard to get new weapons getting one ever other 2 months Also the armory features a criminally small crate storage area in our opinion it shout be able to fit 16 max you could implant it into the leveling up Also naplam wepons so far have been the rarest type of weapons Regards manticore_21.
Youre gonna be nagged about crates you cant open without spending gold, and about several opportunities to spend money on randomized lootboxes. Each time you return to base. If you can stomach the gacha mechanics, either by opening your wallet and going the whale route, or by seething through the modal soup, the gameplay is what you would expect.
This game is super fun Ive honestly been playing this game for a long time and really you should download it ngl.
So fun and is really underrated for being a free mobile game highly recommend try for yourself.
Without a doubt the best mobile game we have ever played. Graphics are amazing, gameplay is really fun and the best part is there is no ads.
We really love it you have so much fun playing it.
Its an old game but still as good as we remember it when we were younger.
It would be a QoL update if upgrading the armory would decrease the amount of time it takes to open crates seeing as it takes 3 hours each crate and you can only hold four.
We dont normally wright reviews unless a game is super bad or super good in this case its really good its an amazing game but its hard to progress but also fun to play we recommend it to everyone so its a 4/5 star game.
We love the game is fun and a game we could play whenever we are bored, however the only downside we have is when we have crates you can only start unlocking one at a time and would have been better to unlock all the crates and wait for the time so we can get a new set of crates. The other is a bit buggy like it fogs the whole base and when you move to left or write it zooms in and out. Which not that annoying. Overall the game is fun and satisfying we would recommend it.
Incredibly fun game to grind! We play this whenever we have some free time and Ive even spent an hour or two playing before, yes its that fun. Only issue we seem to have with it is that the way the zombies are at times. We understand its supposed to get harder as you go along but it starts to get nearly impossible to complete when the weapons youve been upgrading dont kill them as quickly which is the difference between winning and losing, seeing as the hordes also get bigger.
Can we get the old game back, please? We just want to shoot zombies and not jump through daily hoops of fire.
Ive been playing this game and its one of our most realistic games but there some details that you may fix like for example, making soliders move shooting when there going to a supply place, making them have different shooting poses instead of crouching, not deleting zombie particles when dead but the game still has good detail which is a good thing to at least have, we hope the developers hear this so they could get some ideas on updating the game.
This is the only game that we cant play enough.
For once the ad showed the real game.
Love the game. Great strategy, keeps the mind sharp.
We dont remember how we did it but the boost mechanic basically soft locked us in the tutorial so we couldnt do anything. It was ages ago and thought our data was deleted but nope. Its still there . Try to delete our account but for some reason it takes ages just to wipe memory for a person who was in the tutorial and didnt progressed far enough in the tutorial soft lock.
Fun game but wayyyy too many long ads that you must watch. We dont like it.
It doesnt make sense that the first weapon you get to destroy obstacles cant kill a titan. It is also very repetitive and slightly annoying (its been about a year since we played last but judging from the reviews it hasnt really changed. ).
It's fun to have a base that you can upgrade, and that there are soldiers to protect, while they're on a mission to gather supplies. The graphics compared to the first one are substantially better. However, it is a real grind, as one reviewer before us had stated, to upgrade anything that'll really help you. The explosive weapons have very limited ability to harm, and the Titan zombies are just about impossible to kill, unless you use a sniper gun that only works good for them and bad for anything else. The upgrades for the weapons are just about worthless, and even the elite crates don't really give you much for the cost. Another negative point is the fact that there really aren't many levels, and the only way that you can unlock more levels is to play the same levels again on a harder setting. However, then you run into the problem of the weapons that you have upgraded 30+ times, are seriously inadequate making the levels almost impossible to beat. So you just get stuck and can't really play the game anymore, unless you just want to replay all the levels without any benefit. Unless the developers go back and re-program this game so that upgrading weapons actually does something, and make it so getting to the higher levels doesn't take such a huge increase in rank, this game unfortunately doesn't have much of a life left. Which is sad, because it could really be one of the greats.
Scratches that destruction itch, and is great for long road trips.
Its fun but its EXTREMELY expensive.
Deleted game. We've paid alot over the years but now it's now it's about advertising IN ADDITION to paying. Fun game and we don't even mind paying but we refuse to pay AND watch ads. God bless capitalism but we're not doing both. Goodbye ZG survival.
Some of the most egregiously priced microtransactions we have ever seen in any game. There are insanely cool weapons that just don't exist outside of $100-$200 MTX. Just absolutely nuts prices, we understand wanting to charge something but who in their right mind is going to pay $100 for a crate with a 1/4 chance of dropping a legendary 'prototype' and have to spend $400 for a guaranteed drop? It's a shame though because the rest of the game is awesome.
This game is addicting, but not excessively. We love how you need strategy with different weapons and troops, not just mindless clicking.
The game is good play but the thing when you purchase from store it sometimes forgets to take your money than days later it wants to collect when its not convenient. Makes it a hassle if youre buying somewhere else. We dont have it like that ($) so thats why the 2 stars. Yall should upgrade that bug.
What TradNat is mentioning is the 11/12/2025 update that changed several elements of the crate reward system that negatively impacts the free-to-play user experience. The core of this game is excellent and many of us have been long time players. But over the years, the gold cost for items has increased without any increase in benefit. Where there were one or two add pop-ups when loading the game years ago, now there are about 9 with no configuration option to disable this. Flare Games continues to devalue this game by pushing players to monetized offerings just to keep a decent playing experience. The player base that cant afford the pay to win options continue to experience more pain and less gain. The latest update this past week made a barely tolerable game into an intolerable one by minimizing our creative choices in the game. Ill check back in a few months and see if anything has changed for the positive.
We started playing this game within 1 year of its original release. Unlocked the entire base, tons of gold weapons etc. Was maxed out on everything. Then we switched to an IPhone. We followed all directions for backing up and switching from droid to iPhone. Lost all game data, the help center was about as much help as asking a heart surgeon to fix your car. That was a few years ago now and the fan just continues to be a money grab and quickly going downhill. So many ads now it is ridiculous. If you want to ever get a gold weapon, you have to watch the equivalent of over 5 hrs worth of ads. (300 1min plus ads) if you want a prototype weapon(the only ones that will get you past all the levels) be prepared to shell out $200 a weapon. You also now have to watch 3 ads to unlock a weapons crate, when it was one. Cool caveat, these ads do not count toward your 300 ads for a golden weapon. Also, unless you totally love repetitive gaming, getting your pockets picked, and a pay to play, pay to win game, then you may want to pass on this. Im probably putting nearly 7 years of gaming up because it went from an awesome game where you powered up and advanced as you played. But now it has gotten to where you HAVE to play all weekend during the special and spend 30,000 gold in an effort to finish in the top 10 of the world!! In order to power up. No joke.
We love the weapons, but everything is priced ridiculously high.
This is an amazing game. There are so many things we love about it, but the fact that it has no ads (unless you want to watch one to get a reward) is a real game changer.
What a great way to kill a little time! See what we did there?!? Super fun and great graphics and game play if your into destroying the zombie horde.
Highly suggest getting this, fun free to play, in app purchases make it a lot more fun as well.
Ive been playing this game for a while , but you have to fix your achievement system.
Great concept, fun game play but later levels need strategic weapon choices that players most likely wont have, also events that give these great weapons as rewards only to the top 15 players in the server! You can view those players the top 15 load outs and all of them have prototype weapons which as far as we can tell so far are not possible for a f2p player to acquire but Im still playing and if we find differently we will correct this review at that time. Outside of that complaint the game design etc is pretty cool imo.
Not the game we remember it to be, infested with pop ups for subscriptions and other micro transactions, gone down in quality.
Imagine flying one of the coolest planes while destroying zombies.
So fun! Love it ! Would recommend to friends.
We absolutely love this game but we desperately want Backbone controller support from this title.
Very good gambling game we love gambling for new ac-130 weapons.
Its generally pretty fun but can get repetitive .we have one complaint tho. Theres this bug where our grenade launcher fires at a group but by the time the grenade arrives the target of the grenade is dead so it kinda just disappears instead of exploding and killing the horde(if the target had lived the explosion would have killed the whole horde). Also we think having the helicopter be upgradable would be pretty cool as well.
It takes you x-ing 5-8 screens before you can even click start game because theyre trying to sell you something. Incredibly annoying.
Yo this game actually slaps reminds us of callin in the streak on cod.
Honestly the perfect mobile game, your not controlling a person so theres no awkward controls, also the base building is simple yet satisfying. If the devs ever get to read this, thank you for an awesome game, we never spend money on mobile games (or really games in general, except to actually buy them) however ill probably buy something in the game just to support the project.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.38
- Size: 1,007.06 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Loot Boxes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Flaregames GmbH
Last updated: 17th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Flaregames GmbH